Audinate develops Director for remote management of Dante networks

Now available, the new SaaS Director solution Audinate allows remote management of Dante devices from any manufacturer over the Internet.

Dante Director provides “a IoT platform powerful, interoperable and manufacturer independent for the audiovisual sector”, As stated in the statement Audinate, offering remote administration and management of Dante networks.

Already become a de facto standard in AV over IP networks, Dante is currently available in more than 4.000 devices over 600 manufacturers, for low latency transmission of audio and video streams over any standard IT network.

This new SaaS solution now joins Audinate's range of products for the management of professional AV solutions, along with Dante Domain Manager, that responds to the management needs of business and local networks (more details in Digital AV).

One of the advantages of Dante Director is facilitate the work and productivity of AV/IT administrators, since they can remotely configure Dante channel subscriptions; control user access; ensure network security and monitor multiple Dante networks from a single account and web panel.

For this, Director works closely with Dante Controller to provide AV management capabilities and flexibility that users, after initial setup, can be used remotely from any Internet connection.

“Dante Director is the next step in Dante network management, providing maximum convenience and flexibility for IT and AV administrators - underlines Laurence Crew, senior product manager en Audinate-. Users can manage device security; Track your stability and extend transparent monitoring and control with custom Dante Managed API integrations.”.

As this manager adds, “We expect Dante Director to become the default choice for permanent Dante installations.”, where management flexibility and monitoring are critical”.

Dante Director subscriptions also offer access to Dante Managed API, enabling software integrators and developers to add value to their applications by construction of new network interfaces and data retrieval for use in dashboards.

In this sense, the collaboration solutions specialist AVI-SPL uses Managed API to integrate data from customer Dante networks in your user experience management platform Symphony, that allows you to manage, monitor, Monitor and analyze multi-vendor AV/CU meeting environments.

This is how he explains it Laurie Berg, vp. of Symphony operations at AVI-SPL: “Dante Managed API allows our customers to consolidate information about their Dante network with data from other technology deployments.”, providing a unified view of your assets and reducing resolution time”.